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trophy for the state of ohio. >> reporter: look at this. this is just a panoply of of cleveland. we're all here, all down here, all very happy. and, of course, this is a great day for the city of cleveland. they were heartbroken not that long ago. and i think all is forgiven, don. >> i can't it tell. they're very demure and reserved. are they excited, marty, there? i don't know what's going on there. i'm not sure. marty, how are you -- how do you feel? you're a die-hard fan. >> reporter: yeah, well, i think everybody -- when the news first came out, there is like that second and a half where there was just like silence, because we're not accustomed to hearing these great things and this is that moment we heard in the past wait a second and somebody said it's real and the celebration began. and for a lot of reasons, great news. if you read what lebron writes about this city, northeast ohio,
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it's what everybody here takes to heart. >> marty, perfect person to cover this. we'll see you soon. >> reporter: am i right? oh, my gosh. >> and he's stirring the pot. of course he is. thank you, marty savidge, thank you clevelanders. that's cleveland. what about miami? what's their reaction? >> no worries. i don't think anybody in miami is going to start burning some -- i don't think anybody is going to start burning his jersey. >> four years with lebron, we're very happy. four conferences, two championships. it was fantastic. it's going -- we're going to be very sad to lose him, but we understand, he's got to go home and i respect that. >> joy taylor is here from miami's zazlo and joy radio show. is that a real smile right there? do you have to, like, fake it right now? how are you feeling? >> oh. listening to those cleveland fans is like having my soul
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ripped out. it's awful. look, you know, we kind of had a few days to mourn and prepare ourselves for this. this is kind of like when someone hints they're going to break up with you, you start emotionally preparing for it. so, look, you know, i'm not going to pretend i'm not disappointed. everyone down here is upset. but it kind of felt like it was coming, and, look -- miami, can't be anything but grateful. we had four straight finals appearances, two championships, we got to experience the greatest player in the nba. and what more can you ask for? we've got to let him go. it is what it is. >> but lebron, don't you love me? what happened to us? oh, my gosh. >> no, no. look. >> would you take him back? would you take him back? >> oh, of course! please. if he wants to change his mind right now, we'll forgive him, of course. but, you know, he's the greatest player in the nba, he's earned it, earned the right to make his decision. and it makes me sad when i see the mural defaced and fans are going to react emotionally. >> okay.
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>> i don't like to judge the entire fan base based off one person. the same way that i'm sure cleveland fans don't want to be judged off the guys that were burning the jersey. fans are upset. but we'll move on and, you know -- goodbye, lebron. >> bye, lebron. so long. okay, so here's the thing. i lived in philly, where we used to throw batteries at the opponent. crazy. new yorkers are rabid fans. i don't know if miami is like that. what i'm wondering is, the game between miami and cleveland. what's that going to be like? they're going to need extra security? >> no, no. miami fans, look, it's miami. everybody rips on miami fans all of the time. we're a loving people. you know? we like to go out and we like to party and we like our sports and entertainment. and let's not forget that sports is entertainment. so i think it will be fine. miami fans have got a terrible reputation around the national media, and i think it's very unfair. i'm originally from pittsburgh. so i come from an amazing sports town. so i can testify that i lived in
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miami and i've lived in pittsburgh, and there's great sports fans here that are very loyal and dedicated, a terrible reputation for whatever reason. and it's mostly because it's a story. it's a very romantic story for the hometown star to return home and we're happy we had him when we did, and it is what it is, like i said. >> he's going back to his wife, with his mistress for a while, but going back. >> that's one narrative. >> can i show you this? these are cleveland t-shirts, and they read "lebron james forgiven." do you believe they're forgiven, joy? that he's forgiven? >> yeah, i believe they forgave him. i believe they always wanted him back and why wouldn't you? their reaction was what you would expect from a fanatical fan base, and cleveland has great fans. so, of course, they're going to be upset when he leaves. do i agree with the way they treated him, do i agree with what dan gilbert did, of course not. yeah, of course he's forgiven. lebron james is going back to cleveland, they have an opportunity to win a championship, yeah i think, they're going to get over it
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real quick. >> it was fun while it lasted. >> it was. it was a great run. we had a great time. we're sad. i'm not going to act like i'm not sad. i'm very upset. trying to hold it together. but i think i speak for all heat fans when i say we're grateful for the time we had and now we have to regroup and see where we go from here. >> you don't want to cry on national tv. the eyeliner and the mascara. this is bad. >> big girls don't cry. that's not what we do. we'll be okay. >> joy taylor. thank you. appreciate it! good luck. >> thank you. >> all right. we're going to talk to a former nba greg anthony in about 20 minutes on this. now on the case. the dad accused of leaving his toddler to die in a hot car in georgia has been fired from his job at home depot. this comes as investigators testify that justin ross harris was sexting six different women while he was at work and while little cooper was trapped in the suv. we don't know if his wife, leanna, knew about his online activities, but investigators have questioned her demeanor.
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they say she made an odd statement when she heard that ross had not dropped the child off that day. blurting out, quote, ross must have left him in the car. leanna harris has arrived to visit her mom near tuscaloosa, alabama. she also recently hired a defense attorney. while she hasn't been charged, prosecutors are building a case against her husband, narrowing in on comments he's made online. cnn's victor blackwell did some digging, and here it is. >> reporter: what are believed to be the words of justin ross harris one year ago online are now taking on new relevance as harris is charged with killing his son. killing a person in the sense of abortion is selfish and malicious, with the intent of only satisfying your own personal agenda. they're on the social media site, reddit, where cobb county detectives say he read suspicious topic pages, also
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known as sub reddits. >> he visited several sites, and these sub reddits, it was people who die. he went to a sub reddit called child-free. he also did a search how to survive prison. >> hundreds of comments spanning three years under the screen name roscoe ua. the most recent posted just hours before harris' arrest. roscoe ua offered a reddit user advice on how to avoid arrest in the context of dui. the post marked three months ago reads, "refuse to answer any questions and ask if you're being detained. if not, leave." he goes on. "everything a police officer does during a possible dui traffic stop means he is trying to build evidence against you. you should do everything in your power to prevent this." there are posts about gratitude. one year ago, about a new life in georgia. i am now in my dream job, have a beautiful 6-month-old son and love going to work every day. i couldn't be happier. also posts about difficulties. like the surprising challenge
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suggested during harris' probable cause hearing, and defense attorney max kilgore will almost certainly revisit it during any trial. >> would you be surprised to know that ross is completely deaf in his right ear? >> did i not know that. >> he explains, i had a bottle rocket explode in my ear, caused me to have vertigo, terrible balance and facial paralysis for a long time. thankfully, after two surgeries, i have no outward issues. i'm just deaf in my right ear. potential evidence investigators are scouring to better understand this father charged with killing his only child. victor blackwell, cnn, atlanta. >> hmmm. let's discuss this. all these new revelations about this. his online life. jane velez-mitchell is the best person to do it. she is the host at our sister network, hln. of "jane velez-mitchell" that's her show. we know some background police knowledge of this, but allegedly giving advice on how to avoid a dui. how can this be used against
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him? >> it's fascinating. here he is, under a false persona, roscoe, giving people advice on how to outsmart cops if you're pulled over, and then about three months later, guess what happens to him? he's pulled over by cops, in the sense that he's confronted by cops as his chide child is there dead on the pavement and becomes belligerent and says "bleep you" at the cops when they throw the cuffs on him. i wonder, did he think he was smarter than the cops? remember, he had worked as a police dispatcher. and so i'm wondering if he thought, you know, i got this down. >> janie. how long have you and i been doing this? they always think -- we have segments called stupid criminals. >> exactly. >> they always think they're smarter than the cops. >> but especially if he worked as a police dispatcher, might have thought he had the ideas track how to fool them. >> we have discussed this on television a number of times. and when you come on, everyone always says, listen, let's stop speculating so much, i caution you on that. but you believe, i think, there are too many coincidences in
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this case. the searching online. the police knowledge. all of that. you think -- there's way too much. >> you can just take any one of the facts that prosecutors have accumulated, and toss it out, and it looks like, wow, overwhelming. the very fact that at 1:30 in the afternoon, the daycare sends a mass e-mail, and on that e-mail list is this father, and he's at work. so wouldn't that set the alarm bells off? ooh, i'm getting an e-mail from my baby's daycare. i forgot to drop him off. that's just one example. he gets in the car, leaving work. now, police have described the stench as overwhelming, the stench of death. the child had been debt dead for several hours in a car that reached approximately 130 degrees inside. and he doesn't smell anything? >> i want to go on to this -- if you could go up to number two -- i don't have this page. but i want to read what he says. he posts about abortion. and i'll read it. it said, killing a person in the sense of abortion is selfish and malicious, with the intent of only satisfying your own
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personal agenda. why is he posting about -- >> well, here's my analysis of that. i think it's called a smokescreen. sometimes when you're thinking about doing something, first of all, you're fighting with yourself. and you're also projecting the opposite to the outside world. so essentially, he's talking about how terrible it is to kill, but he's limiting it to abortion in that comment. could he be having a personal war with himself? that seems like -- just from a psychological standpoint, why is he talking about this? why is he visiting child-free lifestyles? why is he looking at videos of people dying, whetherit the iraq war or suicide? if you take the sum total of this and then a man with different personas, different names, lying on the internet, you've got to wonder, what is up with this man? >> i just have to say, you know, he will get what's coming to him, whether he goes to jail or not, right? i mean, can you imagine? even if it was a mistake. can you imagine having to deal
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with that and if it wasn't, come on. i mean, it's awful. but that little kid in the car, when you saw -- talked about the abrasions and how he was scratching to get out of the car and fighting to get out of the car, just awful. there's a -- >> it's just beyond comprehension. and i think so many people are having a hard time with the idea that anybody could possibly do that intentionally. of course, as you know, and i know, covering these stories and he deserves his day in court, but people do the most awful things all of the time. >> and people leave their children in cars by mistake all of the time. remember, check your car if you have a kid. check your car every single time. let's hope that's the -- the silver lining, is that people really are aware now. >> thank you, janie. appreciate you. i'm sure you'll be covering this tonight. love watching you. up next. >> you can hear the sirens have just gone off. we're being told to get to a shelter so we're running. >> of course, our very own wolf blitzer in israel, taking shelter moments after air raid sirens went off. we're going to check in live with him and he's going to
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explain exactly what happened in that moment. and an op-ed column is getting a ton of backlash. the title really says it all. it says, quote, dear white guy, stop stealing black female culture. we'll speak with the woman who wrote it and the guy challenging her, next. ♪ f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... ...incites envy...
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we're going to try this one more time. a senior at the university of mississippi has a message for all the white gay men out there who she says are acting like black women. she says stop stealing black female culture. that's actually the title of her opinion piece that "time" published on its website and she has gotten quite the reaction online. so many people are tweeting her about this. and, of course, she has a response. and here's what sierra manny says in her piece. she says, quote, you are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. the difference is that the black women with whom you think you align so well whose language you use and stereotypical mannerisms you adopt cannot hide their blackness and womanhood to protect themselves the way that you can hide your homosexuality. well, of the gay white men who disagree with her, at least one decided to fire back a response. and that is h. allen scott and he wrote this.
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recognizing the things that she thinks belongs only to black women is the very thing that causes the separation and hate in our society. there is a reason why this country is called a melting pot, because eventually once you lose the separation and start appreciate what makes us all amazing, you start realizing that. we're not all that different. we're not that different at all, he says. so i want to bring in both these writers. h. allen scott in los angeles. can you hear me this time, allen? >> i can hear you. thanks for having me. >> yay. and sierra manny in oxford, mississippi, you can hear me as well, right, sierra? >> yes, sir, i am hear you. >> okay. so you have read his article now, right? >> i have. >> what do you think of what he wrote? >> well, first of all, mr. lemon, you said that my article is intended for all gay white men. when you first read my article, of course, i not think that all gay white men act this way. i do not insinuate such in my article. i actually wrote in the first
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two sentences i need some of you to stop doing this behavior and maybe some of you think this way. but from reading his article, also i would keep on with those same comments. i do not say that all gay men should stop talking, acting or remotely aligning themselves with black women. but it is a problem for gay white men who do do those things. also, i definitely disagree with what he says about appreciating people is about ignoring our differences and i definitely do not think that is the case. i appreciate, for instance, things about different cultures such as mine, like one of my best friends is indian, for instance, and i can appreciate -- >> here's the question. >> okay. >> a better question is, why did you feel compelled to write this? >> because, well, first of all, i am not a journalist. i do not write for "time." i wrote through my student
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newspaper, because i was hired to be a columnist. and so i wrote about things that happened to me. things, personal experiences that have happened to me. >> why this subject? >> because it happened to me. it happened. >> what happened to you? >> well, it's not even like just yesterday or the day before that i did it or the day before someone else did it but almost constantly it seems there will be times when i will meet a gay white male or i will witness it, a gay white male interacting with another black woman, and there will be -- it's aggressive to me, coming up to me and saying, "ooh, girl, this and that." and basically putting on their best black woman, basically face. their best black woman act in an attempt to communicate with me. >> i gotcha. all right. and you're sick of it. you're sick of that and you think they're putting on an act, right? you're sick of it. okay. h. allen. that's her experience. >> yeah.
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and i -- first i have to say that i totally sympathize and relate and empathize with the struggle that it must be to be a black woman, because it's true. black women in america are persecuted on many different levels, by both white community and african-american men. that's just a case. african-american rates of african-american rates of hiv infection is growing in this country. and there's so many other areas where african-american women are getting the short end of the stick. i will say, though, that i did not say in my article that we should ignore our differences. we should embrace our differences and realize that we are all kind of the same and we're all experiencing this at the exact same time and it isn't about specifically isolated gay white men as doing something to black women. it's about unifying a community and saying we're in this together. >> so my question to you is the same as her. what compelled you to -- because when i read it, i was like, okay, why is he defending his right to be a black woman or act
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like a black woman? what compelled you? is. >> well, i don't -- i mean, all due respect, i feel like you misread that. >> no, but that's what you're doing, you're saying we have a right to do this. we should all be able to do what we want. so -- >> no, i'm saying that culturally, we have a right to communicate in ways that is not offensive. and yes, there are levels that saying ghetto booty is very offensive. however, if these men, gay men -- we have all experienced this and i've seen it myself where gay men do identify with the affirming awesomeness of black women. the dream girls effect. the beyonce effect, which you quoted. and also too, we have to acknowledge historical context here, that many of the mannerismses that you spoke of in your article actually come from gay culture. like paris is burning, like boys in the band. these are not new mannerisms that have come in the last ten years because of
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african-american female culture. it's been around. so -- >> i'll let you respond. go ahead, sierra. >> but, you know, i wasn't talking about gay behavior or like this idea that these certain things are gay. what i'm talking about stereotypical black behaviors, coming up to me and calling me sha nae nae or trying to talk to me when my hair is natural. that's different. >> let me jump in here. because here's the thing that -- probably both of you should understand. i think that many people probably read sierra, what you said and they thought that you were, you know, excluding people and coming off as angry. i can i understand. but i understand what you're saying. there's a term, h. allan, called columbusing, right? where african-americans feel that white people will think they discovered something that black culture has been doing for years. like twerking, right? all of a sudden miley cyrus is the queen of twerking. that has been happening in black
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culture for years. and there are many other examples of that. so you may think that it's something that is funny and cute and that you're embracing black culture, but what you're doing is almost a menstrual show in some way. you're -- it's a mockery and it's like, okay, this is fun, this is great, i can do this, i'm twerking now and now that's over. so you pulled parts of the culture and you use it to sort of make fun and then you cast it away. so i understand what she's saying with that. >> i completely agree with that. but i will say the african-american community is perpetuating the stereotype of pushing this. you look at videos with music videos with, you know, rappers and they're having african-american women doing the twerking dances. it's not just miley cyrus is the queen of twerking. and so if there is a cultural offense, which i completely empathize and relate to, if there is a cultural offense, the african-american community should also address it within their own community. and they're perpetuating on themselves. >> no, no, no. this is not about twerking.
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this is not about what rappers do in rapping videos. this is not at all about that. that is an excuse. you're not acknowledging the fact that certain things do belong to people of certain cultures. and when you say that -- identify those, you're erasing the fact that i have culture. and that there are things that i have, that i've experienced, language that i know, that you have nothing -- >> okay. we've got to go. just for time purposes. but people don't own certain things just because they are of a certain color. you just can't own that. but i understand what you're saying. here's what i think is the most important thing that you say. and that what you, h. allan, should understand when you're trying to be cute or funny or gay and walking up to people saying, "hey girl." what she said, here is the shade. the nonblack people who get to enjoy the fun things about blackness will never have to experience the ugliness of the black experience systematic racism and the dangers of simply living while black. i know that there is a
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similarity in gays being gays and transgender people and being discriminated against. not the same as being an african-american. and this is not -- this is more, you know, discriminated against than yours. >> that's belittling the gay experience. it is. >> no, i said it's similar. i didn't say that it was -- it's not -- you know, the same. it's not the same. >> implying that we can hide our homosexuality is belittling it. >> no, but it's the truth. you can hide your homosexuality. listen, let me tell you. if i ask people on the screen, i said, which one of these people on the screen is gay. nobody would know that. but if i said which one of these people on the screen is black, everybody would know that. there is some credence to that. so you can't dismiss it. >> yes. >> we're not going to solve it -- >> no, i don't dismiss it, but i feel like it's offensive to imply that we can. or should. >> and it was not advice. >> no, no one is -- that's not what anyone is implying. but to say they're the same is disingenuous. so i've got to go. but thank you both. i appreciate it. fascinating conversation.
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sierra and h. alan scott. appreciate it. next, rockets flying in israel. this is closed circuit video that shows just one of the mini attacks that sent people running for cover. israel not backing down today. the country's prime minister says he is considering a -- preparing for all options, and that could be a war. plus, cnn gets unique access to a new york police department forensic lab. what is it like in the state-of-the-art place, this equipment, and how are officers using it to solve cases? a real-life csi explainer, coming up. i've had surgery, and yes, i have occasional constipation. that's why i take doctor recommended colace capsules. [ male announcer ] for certain medical conditions where straining should be avoided, colace softens the stool for effective relief from occasional constipation. go to colacecapsules.com for savings.
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palestinian deaths from israeli attacks on gaza have risen today past 100. no israelis have died in the fighting that started late monday, so zero israeli deaths so far. and that's despite the barrage of incoming rockets being fired from gaza militants and attacks today set off a gas station ablaze. a gas station ablaze some 15 miles into israel and left one person wounded. wolf blitzer just happened to be right there, and just a short time later, he had to ditch his car with his cnn crew when air raid sirens signal incoming danger. here is wolf running for cover. >> you can hear the sirens have
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just gone off. we're all being told to get to a shelter. so we're running. >> so that was wolf blitzer earlier and now live in jerusalem. we're glad you're safe, wolf. i talked with mikel oren and he said the rocket attacks by hamas have served to traumatize 5 million israelis. what is it like for you trying to get to shelter, and do you still feel shaken and traumatized by this? >> you know, i've covered earlier confrontations similar to this one here in israel with hamas and gaza or hezbollah in lebanon. this was the first time i personally have been driving in a car with our whole cnn crew and all of a sudden we stopped at a light and heard the sirens
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and everybody jumped out. you could see the other cars stop immediately and people just put their car in park. >> some didn't even turn off the engines, they ran out, kept doors open, ran to the nearest bomb shelter and there's plenty of them, especially close to the gaza border. we weren't that far away. you hear the sirens, go inside the bomb shelter, wait for five minutes, get the all-clear, you go back, the cars are all there, everybody gets back in their cars. keep on driving. it's a frightful situation. there's a lot of tension. and clearly, it's a bad situation. what's going on in gaza is clearly a lot worse, as you point out, 100 people have been killed. most of them civilians and 7 or 800 have been injured. israel has got a very good anti missile defense system that so-called iron dome system that works pretty well. but still a pretty frightening situation for israelis and obviously very, very frightening for the palestinians and gaza, as well as israel keeps pounding with those air strikes. >> wolf blitzer, we want you to stay safe.
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thank you. we know you'll be anchoring "the situation room" live. 5:00 eastern. make sure you tune in here on cnn. next, so miami or cleveland? where would you choose to live? the best basketball player on the planet, he chose cleveland. lebron james announcing he is going back to ohio today. why? former nba player greg anthony is going to join me, next.
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. so why don't we head over to cleveland now, where the party has already started, because lebron james is headed back home to cleveland. he will once again be a cavalier. look at all those excited fans. some ran for miles just to be near the media, because they were so excited. and that may be surprising to some people, because you remember this scene. this was after his decision to leave cleveland four years ago. fans burning jerseys. the cavs' owner even called him a coward back then. well now dan gilbert says this. he tweeted, "welcome home, king james. i am excited for the fans and people of cleveland and ohio. no fans and people deserve a winner more than them." okay.
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i want to cnn sports commentator's greg anthony's reaction to all of this. greg, what's going on? all of a sudden everything is forgiven now in cleveland. and he just wrote one article and he's coming back and everybody is we forgive you, come on back. >> yeah. it is, you know, what a difference four years makes. four years ago, lebron james was probably the most hated athlete in professional sports in north america. now for about 90% of the country he's probably the most beloved. i mean, you know, you have to put in perspective, too, when you think about the era of free agency, really for all sports, but particularly in basketball, you have never seen a guy that's considered without question the best in his profession go to a small market. you know, that also in and of itself is a bit shocking to some respect. but also to what you said earlier, don. he is going back home. he's got the familiarity there. he's also going back as a world
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champ, which i think also helps the situation. and i think truly, he also believes that cleveland now has in place the beginnings of what could become a championship caliber team for many years to come, because they have such a young, bright nucleus with a lot of flexibility to make more moves to try to validate their opportunity for the upcoming season. >> so greg, i have someone on the phone you may recognize their name. i'm not sure if you will. it's eisaiah thomas. isaiah, thanks for coming on. i understand you're driving. i really appreciate you accepting the invitation to come on. what do you make of this? this is a lot of people in the league waiting to see what happened with lebron james before they made a move. this shook up the league. >> well, first of all, [ bad audio ]
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thanks for letting me steal both of you guys' moves. anyway, with lebron, i look at what he has done in terms of going back home. it is an emotional issue for him in terms of raising his family. i know he's a midwestern young man or midwestern man. and when i look at basketball, he realizes the impact that he has on the young men and women in the state of ohio, in the city of cleveland, in his hometown of akron. and i look at what he's doing from compassion and forgiveness standpoint, he's going forward. hate is a thing that drives and compels a lot of negativity. and what lebron has done in
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terms of forgiveness and compassion, i think he's put himself on not only a championship stage from a basketball standpoint, but also a championship stage in life. by leading by example. >> yeah, well, isaiah thomas, i have to thank you for joining me. you broke up for a little bit, but we got the gist of what you were saying. isaiah thomas. greg anthony, thank you, as well, sir. appreciate it. >> all right. take care, don and isaiah. coming up next cnn gets a look at a detention facility for those waiting for immigration cases to be heard. what we found inside, next.
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now i want to get to the border crisis that has burst the immigration system at its seams. so many undocumented kids trying to come to the u.s. have forced police to look beyond federal holding centers, converted facilities never meant to hold immigrants. and jeh johnson visited one of those places. and he was in artesia, new mexico. his visit happens one day after he urged lawmakers to spend nearly $4 billion to hem stem the tide of migrants. so what exactly did jeh johnson
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see? cnn's ana cabrera joins me live. you went inside. what was it like? >> reporter: hey, don, probably not what you would expect, especially after you've seen those pictures inside some of those texas holding facilities so crammed and overwhelmed. really, when we went inside here, felt more like a college campus, complete with dorm rooms that have bunk beds, desks. a lot of rooms have television sets. they showed us the bathroom area. private or separated by gender. private shower stalls. we also got to see some of the toys the children have access to. hula hoops, baths, balls, stuffed animals. we learned there are more than 400 women and children bussed here to this, again, temporary housing facility. they came here from texas. and this facility is on the grounds of the federal law enforcement training center. it's a 3,600-acre sprawling facility. we have learned these women and children pretty much have free
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rein, but monitored closely and nobody is allowed to leave until their fates are decided. the goal here is expedited repatriation. and that's something that secretary jeh johnson spoke about today. listen. >> i think it's fair to say that a good number of them were surprised that they were being detained. i think they expected to be apprehended and simply let go into the interior and they're surprised that they're being detained and sent back so quickly. >> reporter: in fact, we have learned this facility opened on june 27th and secretary johnson says the first group of people who were brought here will be deported starting next week. now that they have a bit of a more efficient system for processing in housing some of these undocumented immigrants, he says they hope to make the legal cases go quickly. the goal here is two to four days of when they arrive. again, that is the goal. certainly some cases could take a little bit longer, don. >> a, anna, we have seen other
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towns protest the immigrants coming there. what about artesia? what's the mood there? >> reporter: certainly people here are not happy about immigrants being brought here. we heard from the townspeople concerns about border security, concerns about other immigrants, people who may be considering making this journey. now seeing how nice the accommodations are here, and wanting to come on this journey. and there are concerns still about the health issues that may arrive with having an influx of people coming. i can assure you on that issue, we talked to the medical staff here and they said they aren't seeing anything that's out of the ordinary, nothing that you might not find inside an american daycare, don. >> okay. anna cabrera, thank you very much. up next, a tragic story. a mother dealing with the death of her son sees his image online. she asks the person to quit using the picture, and that's when things escalate. the uploader refuses to take down the video. so what can this mother do now? we're going to talk to her live, next. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?
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>> intentionally, premeditati premeditatively, under god's will, i killed him. >> hink is now in a nebraska prison. brendan's body never found. and that detail has now fueled this youtube video. it claims the 5-year-old boy is still alive and shows images that show the dead boy at an older age. what's worse, the uploader is refusing to take the video down, saying she wants the truth to come out. on top of that, the video has been duplicated by another account under ivan hink, the name of the murderer. brendan's mother has asked repeatedly for the uploader and google to remove the video. but it is still online. the boy's mother, rebecca gonzalez, joins me live now. rebecca, my condolences, and really thank you for being here. when you see this video, what does it do to you? >> it angers us. it angers me, because we know
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it's not true. and that just is really frustrating, when your wishes don't go heeded, right? >> we reached out -- >> we don't think that brendan deserves that, for his memory. we reached out to the woman who uploaded the video and so far no response. we've also repeatedly called google which owns youtube. again, no response from them. who do you blame more? is it google or the uploader? >> i guess i would have to say it's the uploader because it's ultimately their responsibility for the video itself. but google on the hand that i want to understand that they must get thousands of these kind of requests a day also need to pay attention when things get flagged so heavily in such a short amount of time. you would think there would be a way to act contact them to get it removed, right? >> we have seen on youtube that you have replied to those who support the video.
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doesn't that feed the conspiracy by generating more reaction, do you think? >> i think it was a lot of it in the beginning was trying to get friends and family through social media to help get the attention of google to get it down. and then it just got to where her replies started fueling almost harassment of us in that term. >> the videos are using current posters from the national center for missing and exploited children and the vice president says policy dictates that a case isn't closed until a body is found. we want to make sure it is clear. so is there no truth behind those videos at all? >> there's no truth behind those videos at all. as much as we would like that, we would love brendon to still be with us and not have to have gone through everything we've gone through. unfortunately the evidence that the police and fbi uncovered and, of course, ivan's confession all point to that not
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being a possibility. and we had to come to that reality and come to peace with that 11 years ago. and things like this don't help us rest, right? it's just disturbing. especially it's one thing that if somebody posts it but if the family comes and says please remove it to ignore that and keep pushing it further. it's posted in several different places now. it's unen describable. >> rebecca gonzales, we appreciate you. thanks so much. we have breaking news we want to tell you about now. we're learning about a 6.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of fukushima, japan, devastated by a 2011 tsunami. details coming up. don't go anywhere. we do? i took the trash out. i know. and thank you so much for that. i think we should get a medicare supplement insurance plan.
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a 6.8 magnitude earthquake just struck off the coast of fukushima, japan, the same area devastated by a tsunami three years ago. you see her there. jennifer grey, what's going on? >> the major concern a tsunami. this many area far too familiar with that. the 6.8 earthquake hit about 175 miles northeast of tokyo a tsunami warning was issued about 15 minutes ago. it looks like no tsunami has been generated. that is very good news. we're not thinking a tsunami will be generated. we're going to keep a cleese eye on it. we haven't heard any reports of damage. aftershocks are a possibility. they're normally less than the initial magnitude of that earthquake. we're going to be looking for that the next couple of minutes and monitoring those tsunami warnings. but as of right now, doesn't look like a tsunami was generated. >> jennifer grey, in atlanta, keeping an eye on that. thank you very much. this weekend people around the globe will be watching is the finals of the world cup. and this week's cnn hero has
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made it his mission to focus on fal lan throwpy for kids in countries like brazil. >> the atmosphere at world cup is like nothing else. it's electric. you get that the rain red bull kaleidoscope of all the different nations that come together. football is the only worldwide sport really. in 2004, i suddenly saw all the fans around me. it was like it was an untapped army. some of the children that love football the most live in very poor areas. i started asking myself, what could i do if we could mobilize some of these people to do some good? so we bring people to the world cup. they get to the watch games. we find local charities working
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with children and ask how can we help you. >> there's going to be three classrooms. to come and to do this for us, for the children, this is the world cup spirit. >> in brazil, we've got about 300 volunteers here from about 12 countries. within a couple of days, part of the team full of fun and working really hard. >> oh, hey. >> when we invest in a place, it's for the long-term. we've got lots of guys coming and getting it in their blood. this is my second go. this time my son has come with me. a bit of bonding and building things together. >> you're tired out are every morning but look how far we've come in a week. it's fantastic. >> football has always had the ability to break down barriers. we're trying to harness it the passion of football fans to make a difference. >> why don't you tell us about someone you think should be a cnn hero? go to cnnheroes.com to nominate them. germany faces off against argentina in the world cup final
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on sunday. but catholic fans may have a dilemma, do they will cheerl argentina the homeland 69 pope or go back to germany the home of pope deny benedict xvith. pope francis said this is his swiss guards jokingly it's going to be war. that's what he said. all right. so interesting there. and finally, it seems sorry is just not going to cut it because the biggest movie star on the planet is reject agapology from britain's most popular newspaper. george clooney slamming "the daily mail" after the paper published claims the actor's future mother-in-law was against her daughter marrying the movie star for religious reasons. is the cool clooney calling it a completely fabricated story. the mail's website promptly took
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the post down, apologizing, but clooney is not buying it and he is saying they knew ahead of time that they were lying. i thank the mail for its apology, not that i would even accept it but because in doing so, they've exposed themselves as the worst kind of tabloid. that's it for me. have a great weekend. here's jake tapper and "the lead" right now. >> lookie lookie who is popping up in cuba seriously. why are you always up in our grill? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead. israel now knocking down rockets on two fronts calling cup reserves and raining fire on gaza where the kate death toll topped 100 today. what will be the tipping point for an israeli ground invasion or for a cease-fire? the sports lead. you can't go home again, but king james is sure going to

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